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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1903)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday,-November n, 190? FAVORABLE OPINION. Black Hills Man Thinks The Camp Is All E. It. Hnwynr, cyanide SllpOrill toUdolll Of till) Hurst'sllOl) lllillll in tliu lilaok IIIIIh, who has been hjidiiiI lug tho IiihI week in tlm (licciihnriis looking up tlm miiiuig Hltiiutloii, loft thin altnruniiu. Mr. Nnwynr Ih 1111 old university frltiml of I). L. Klllnii ami E. I'. Warner, of tlm KIII1111, Warner, Htmwirt company. Ho Ih vnry fiivornlily Impressed with wliut lin him I1111111 luiri). I In hii.vh: "Tlm tliiin J Iiiivii Hpmit In tlm district gives ample grounds for formiiig'ii fairly just conclusion In regard to tlm situation hero. From what I Iiiivii observed I am free to say that 1 rugiiril this as nun of tlm best t'liiups In tlm country. Tho mineral zone hero Is of viimI extent and tin questioned rlcliiinss. I'lie natural resources in tlm shape of gold bearing ledges am hero beyond any doubt, and tliolr development is only a question of time ami money. While 1 iimile, a general survey of the camp, the. iniidti of tlm Mum I was hero was spent in tlm (Ireeuhorus, which dis trict 1 regard In a very favorable light. .Tho visit alforded mo an op portunity of selling my old college ifrlend.l). L. Killed, whom 1 have not seen for some time, This Is my Jlrst visit to Humpter, and my im pressions of tlm district are most favorable." TRUST WILL ABSORB ALL THE PROFITS. ' Thn'aiivauced price of load will not beiiellt'Yiilne owners who dispose of their lf tiduot to thoAmrnicauKiiioltlug 'A Itellriihg company, judging from a recent statement by Daniel (luggonll'illiii, chairman of that corporation. He, with other otllcers of tlm company, is making a tour of the' hoVthwest. While at Salt Lake recently, he was asked as to tlm report 'that the mine owners will be paid higher prices for lead, and reillodV ' ' "Thli uia'tter Is one thut must de pend largely oil investigation. Theiu is a groat deal morn behind the ques tion than is readily apparent. It would he dlltlmilt to explain It to many of the miners. Ilrlrlly.lt hinges upon this: While It seems apparent to the miner that at the present price the company is paying for lead wo are making great prollts upon that metal, nothing is further from the truth; for it must also be remembered that we dropped out the price of treatment to u undreamed of llgure. "When silver went down so low we let our price of treatment down also, so that the mines could bo kept running. Wo never tl reamed that we' could treat ores as cheaply as wo 'aro treating them today. So when you take that Into consideration you can see that what profit there la in lead la far more than offset by the low treatment rate. However, we will tako tho matter tiudor advisement and it will bo up to tho directors." Commenting on tho future of the oopepr markot, Mr. (Jtiggonbeln) said that to BRBUino that tho withdrawal of tho amigamatod company's output would other than advauco it would bo ridiculously Illogical. Tho supply at this titro, indeed, has been reduced to a point that Is uncomfortably nour tho lino of danger uud with tho consumers rushing in to restock there Is no doubting what tho effect upon tho pricu of tho red inntal would bo. In his opinion tho outlook for copper was never ho assuring us at present. TO START WORK ON GOLDEN WIZARD MILL. L. (). Miller, of Three Rivers, Michigan, president of tho (loldeii Wizard company, arrived hero yester day to look after Hinders relating to the construction of the new mill on 1(1,,, property. 1(. L. Fraiy, vice- president of the company, was also expected, but was unavoidably detained, and cannot come for about thirty days. As stated a few days ago In tho Miner, the contract for building the new plant has been let to Laidlaw and Hteadmaii. This linn will start work excavating for the foundation Monday. Tho buildings aro to bo gotton under way as soon as possible. It will bo a Merrall mill of 100 tons capacity and the machinery, it is stated, has already boon ordered for wan rranolsco. DISCOVERER OF FERRIS- HAGGERTY MINE HERE. I'd Ilaggarty, formroly of (I rand Kucampmeut, Wyoming, arrived In the city today. Mr. Ilaggarty is the discoverer of tho well known Forrla Ilaggarty property at (Sraud Kucamp meut and an old friend of Phil Hour don, formerly superintendent of the Alpine. Mr. Ilaggarty will remalu hero several days and look over the dis trict, i SINKING ON THt VEIN AT BEAR GULCH. Wado and Camp, operating tho limestone property at Hear tiulch, aro now sinking on the ledge. Tho shaft is down thirty feet, and tho same quality of oro which has recently called much attention of this property, continues. Tho values appear to Increase with depth. The company Is making prepara tions to continue work all winter. Still Ealing Strawberries. Loon Lockwood left at tjiis otllco Tuesday some ripe strawberries that wore just gathered from the garden of his mother, Mrs. Clara S. Look wood. For slzo aud beauty these berries that have just ripened equal those of the early crops, though tho crop isn't nearly as bountiful. A berry live aud three-fourths Inches In circumference is rarely excelled In size. This is exactly tho size of the one brought to this otllco that was grown by Mrs, Lockwood. Illuo Mountain Eagle. TO OPERATE THE DEAD MULE. Messrs. Toooinq & tier Will Start Prospect Work in Few Days. Messrs. Topping andWbittior, who rocontly took a bond on 100 acres of placor ground In tho Dead Mulo gulch, nro preparing to dn extonsivo prospect work in the near future Tho plan is to prospect up tho main gulch, in order to dolluo operations for the spring. Tho property is already equipped with ono giant, and tho presont operators aro figuring on bringing in another ditch, which will iucrcaso tho water supply and greatly lengthen the season. Tho season this year was only about four mouths, and the additional ditch, it la figured, will lontgheu it to niuo months. Mr. Whlttler, who with Colonel Topping recently mado a visit to tho property, has this to hay concerning it: "It is our intention, after thnroughlly prnspoctLng the diggings, to start extonsivo operations. Wo already have sufficient evidence of tho richness of the ground to warrant our going iihoad In tho matter. A short timo ago wo put in somothlug less than a day panning and gotovor 10 from a small amount of gravel. The formor operators, I under stand, got 150,000 from flvo aores. Tho ground Is nracticallv untouched Hnd It is our nrosont Intention to and It oporato ou an extousivo scalo in tho spring." The Pead Mulo has boen operated to advantage, as tho output of the formor company has shown, aud tho preseut ownors stato that, tboy intend inaugurating work on an extousivo scale In tho spring. HOW THE WEST WAS BOUGHT 6Y "KING TOM" lu the Novomber Scribuer is a history of tho Louisiana Purchase, by Noah Hrooks. It reads like it straugo romance now. For 015,000,000 Messrs. Livingston aud Monroe bought from the agent of Napoleon u tract of country Including the mouths aud sources of both tho Mississippi aud Missouri, so much laud that by tho purchaso tho area of tho republic was doubled. Still, when the news came mouths later, President Jolforsou, while oxaltod over it feared that tho pui chase was uucoutsitiitioual aud a storm of protest rose over half tho republic agaiust it. Then tho question arose as to how it was to bo governed aud then, too, tho cry of Imperialism was raised and Jetrorson was called "King Tom." That history ought to mako all Americans thoughtful. It was tho moving of tho linger of destiuy, but the nation's eyes were bliudod, they could not see tho purposo, they had no conception of how momeutoua was tu bo tho outcomo of tho trausao tlou. It was iu a little way as it is when the waters aro called up from the breast of the ocean, carried ou the winds to tho mountain tops aud procipltated in snow and ice, there to remain through uncounted years, to receive other deposits of snow aud ice until a glacier la built up, and then, when the timo is ripe the beating of the sunbeams and tho earth's rotation starts the frozen mass in flow, back to tho sea, and the mountain tops are ground into soil, out of which is to grow food to support millions of mortals, which at tho time the snow foil and for millions of years thereafter, existed only in tho mind and tho plans of Cod. A mighty wilderness was bought and a provincial poople, uuconsclous of tho majesty aud promiso of tho vast addition, derided tho purchase, sought to impeach tho motives bohiud tho .purchase aud stormed becauso of the immense sum to be paid out of their taxes for it. Still tho Father of Waters was rolling down' beforo tneir eyes; they knew something of tho wealth of tho Itlilue, tho Dauubo and Don; they wore familiar with the history of tho valleys of Asia aud of tho Nile, but tboy could not comprehend that tho purchaso Included a valley com pared with which no valley of tho old world is worth mentioning. Still tho fathers were intelligent men and bravo and truo men, but thoir horizons wore narrow, thoir visions limited. That was but 100 years ago. Many of the graudchildom of that old raco aro still living, but how marvelous tho change. That valloy supplies half of Europe with food now; it sup plies tho mills of tho old world with textiles; tho gold aud silver aud lead of Montana, Wyoming, half of Colo rado, tho Dakotas, Missouri, and Iowa, all from that purchaso, make a mighty factor lu tho world's corn morco and finances it is au empiro Btroothliig out blessings to all tho world, making a home now for twice as many peoplo as at tho timo of tho purchaso inhabited tho whole ropub Ho, and still it baa but just begun its expansion. Goodwin's Weekly, Salt Lake. CROSSCUT THE VEIN AT ASTORIA GROUP. A. C. Loy and son camo in last night from the Astoria group, owned by E. E. Hauser, Al Jones and J. T. English, having flulshed their assessment work for tho year. In doing this work, tboy cut tho lodge ou tho Astoria claim, showing a with of so von feot iu good oro. Tho property is situated in the Littlo Cracker district aud its show ing is regarded by tho ownors as ex tremely satisfactory. Lowered Price of Barb Wire. Ed Dixon, tho government land agout who has lowered tho price of burb wire in this neck of tho woods, left for Portland today, ou important business. Ills many friends In Wheeler, Ullliam and other Eastern Oregon counties whom he has not yet visited need not fool delighted, as ho is an Importaut sort of chap, aud is comlug baok. FossilJournal. Confectionery. Fresh Caudles and Fruit, Lino of Cigars aud Tobaccos, Choice at STUROILL'S.